The Trump administration escalates its campaign against Harvard University and heads the federal authorities to terminate or pass all non-critical contracts with the IVY League school, which may affect over $ 100 million in financial resources. | Photo credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump’s management moves to terminate all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University and to mark the latest escalation of their fight against the oldest and richest US school.

Josh Gruenbaum, representative of the Federal Acquisition Service, in a letter from Bloomberg News, the federal authorities are dedicated to reviewing their contracts, those who do not consider them critical and switch to other providers if necessary. According to a person with knowledge of the matter, the contracts are estimated to be worth 100 million US dollars that asked not to discuss the movement’s movement.

“The US General Services Administration (GSA) supports all federal authorities in a review to terminate or transfer their federal government contracts with Harvard University and the associated companies,” the letter said. “This review corresponds to the administration’s directive that all strategic priorities of the Federal Agency’s agency have contractually contractually maintained contractually contractually contractually and initiated the agency.”

In the letter, which was first reported by the New York Times, the agencies asks to report on their “actions or intended actions in relation to every reference contract” by June 6th.

Harvard did not immediately answer a request for comments.

The Trump administration has already frozen to freeze the funds and to block Harvard’s ability to make international students in an intensive struggle for what the president looks like as a failure of the university and other academic institutions against anti-Semitism and part of a wider campaign against diversity efforts and left-wing bias.

Administrative officers suppress schools, including Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern and other elite universities, to introduce comprehensive political changes and to uncover concerns about academic freedom, freedom of speech and the interference of the government. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio ordered the US messages worldwide to plan new interviews for applicants for students, since the Trump administration weighs the stricter review of social media profiles, a step that will affect university formation across the country.

However, Harvard was in the top and in the center of the White House campaign. The administration has suspended more than 2.6 billion US dollars in federal research funds and declared that the school will not receive any new funds. Trump has repeatedly asked Harvard to lose his tax exemption status, which would have significant financial effects, even with the school’s $ 53 billion.

The government has applied for a number of changes as a condition for the continuation of its financial relationship with the university. It demanded that the university have changed its governance, the cessation of approvals and the faculty – which the administration described as discriminatory, and no longer admitted international students, of whom civil servants claim to be hostile to American values.

The letter claims that Harvard continues to be “discrimination against breeds, also in his approval process and in other areas of student life” and said that the government is “aware of the latest events at Harvard University with anti -Semitic measures that indicate that the institution has a worrying lack of concern for security and well -being of Jewish students”.

Gruenbaum referred to alleged discrimination against Harvard Law Review. A Federal Task Force recently referred to the award of a 65,000 dollar scholarship by checking it to a demonstrator who was criminally charged on the campus due to attacks by a Jewish student. The decision that the government’s claims were “checked and approved” and approved by a faculty committee.

Harvard President Alan Garber, who is Jewish, apologized for Harvard’s dealings with anti -Semitism on campus and recognized that he experienced a prejudice at school. But he also said that the extent of the government’s demands show that “the intention should not work with us to tackle anti -Semitism.” The University has sued the US government for financing and blocking the enrollment of international students. Last week, the university won a temporary court order that the government blocked through the enforcement of the foreign student ban.

“We had to move quickly because the consequences of the revocation of the visas for our international students were bad,” Garber told Harvard Gazette. This week there will be a trial in which Harvard will try to extend the injunction, he said.

Kristi Noem, secretary of the homeland protection authority, has argued that Harvard’s answers to the government’s inquiries to provide information about misconduct by foreign students were not sufficient.

In order to regain his program certification, Harvard received 72 hours to provide six categories of information about foreign students over the past five years, including disciplinary documents and video of those who were involved in protests. Harvard has still not turned the requested information.

Trump also threatened to distract billions from the university in scholars on Monday.

“I am thinking about taking three billion dollar scholarship money from a very anti -Semitic Harvard and giving it to trade schools in our entire country,” said Trump in a position on social media. “What a great investment that would be used for the USA and so urgently used !!!”

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Published on May 27, 2025